As if pregnant women don't already spend half their day in the bathroom... Can you imagine the constant pressure on the bladder with eight little bodies persistently poking and prodding? How much time can one spend on the toilet? Depends.
Maternity clothes have come a long way in terms of style and it's become fairly easy and affordable for a pregnant woman to dress beyond the dowdy dresses of previous decades. How does a woman carrying eight babies find something to cover her bulging belly? Maybe a stylish 1200 thread-count Egyptian cotton sheet with a head-hole slit in the middle?

I remember only being able to slide my swollen feet into a single pair of flip flops during the final months of pregnancy. The pressure on the tired tootsies supporting a mom of multiple-multiples must be magnified. A vision of hot dogs that have boiled a few minutes too long comes to mind. Eeek!
A single birth is mostly straightforward. Sometimes there are complications, but usually the new little person makes his or her entrance into this world pretty easily. A birth of eight must look somewhat like the door of a clown car opening; they just keep pouring out!

It's amazing that - as of today - all eight newly born babies are healthy and I sincerely hope that they'll grow into robust children with toothpaste-commercial grins who someday dress in matching outfits and sing sugary pop songs.
In the meantime, I look fondly back on my own single-birth pregnancies and smile. The crazy cravings, bladder bedlam, and hot dog toes were all worth it; and I just know a warm feeling will wash over this mother in California each time she sees a clown car.
And, girl! She got at least one of them to 1,4 kg, 3 pounds 4 ounces! And managed to hold on to all 8 of them for 30 weeks!
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